By around 1900 Weimar had already become an arena of Modernism. Around the cult surrounding Friedrich Nietzsche, colourful personalities like Harry Graf Kessler and Elisabeth Foerster-Nietzsche took up the idea of the New Man. Henry van de Velde looked to the future as he created a functional and elegant world in design and interiors. Succinct texts describe the beginnings of Modernism some twenty years before the Bauhaus.
Author Biography
Wolfgang Holler is the director of the museums of the Weimar-based nonprofit Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Sabine Walter is a research assistant with the board of directors for the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's museums. Thomas Foehl is a research assistant with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's office of the president.
